So recently something weird started happening.
Randomly I lose sound in Firefox. It works everywhere else. In Brave, Audacious, MPV player, no issues.
But in Firefox, nothing.
In the “Audio Volume” menu in the Applications tab sometimes I do see Firefox and the sound bar is moving. But there’s no audio at all coming out.
Any ideas?
❯ garuda-inxi
System:
Kernel: 6.17.3-zen2-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=28bd6bff-8598-41ce-bec6-ae24465d3bca rw rootflags=subvol=@
vt.default_red=30,243,166,249,137,245,148,186,88,243,166,249,137,245,148,166
vt.default_grn=30,139,227,226,180,194,226,194,91,139,227,226,180,194,226,173
vt.default_blu=46,168,161,175,250,231,213,222,112,168,161,175,250,231,213,200
quiet nvidia-drm.modeset=1
rd.luks.uuid=316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185
rd.luks.key=316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185=/.docs/2025.jpg:UUID=C676-0984
rd.luks.options=316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185=keyfile-timeout=10s
rd.luks.uuid=eafba6ea-1842-45d3-8af3-5ce617c6f478
resume=/dev/mapper/luks-eafba6ea-1842-45d3-8af3-5ce617c6f478 loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.4.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.19.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: ZenBook Pro Duo UX582HS_UX582HS v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: UX582HS v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: UX582HS.303
date: 04/21/2022
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 88.6 Wh (100%) condition: 88.6/92.6 Wh (95.6%)
volts: 15.94 min: 15.94 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A
charging: status: not charging control: start: N/A end: 100% cycles: 50
Device-1: hidpp_battery_5 model: Logitech MX Ergo Multi-Device Trackball
serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
CPU:
Info: model: 11th Gen Intel Core i9-11900H bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Tiger Lake gen: core 11 level: v4 note: check built: 2020
process: Intel 10nm family: 6 model-id: 0x8D (141) stepping: 1
microcode: 0x56
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 8 cores: 8 threads: 16 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 640 KiB desc: d-8x48 KiB; i-8x32 KiB L2: 10 MiB
desc: 8x1.2 MiB L3: 24 MiB desc: 1x24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1465 min/max: 800/4900:4800 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 1465 2: 1465 3: 1465
4: 1465 5: 1465 6: 1465 7: 1465 8: 1465 9: 1465 10: 1465 11: 1465 12: 1465
13: 1465 14: 1465 15: 1465 16: 1465 bogomips: 79872
Flags-basic: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel TigerLake-H GT1 [UHD Graphics] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915
v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Xe process: Intel 10nm built: 2020-21 ports:
active: DP-2,DP-3,eDP-1 empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 0000:00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:9a60 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104M [GeForce RTX 3080 Mobile / Max-Q 8GB/16GB]
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 580.95.05 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
non-free: 550-580.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-08; EOL~2026-12-xx)
arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 ports:
active: none empty: HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 0000:01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:249c
class-ID: 0300
Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 HD UVC WebCam driver: uvcvideo type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 3-9:5 chip-ID: 13d3:56eb
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: nouveau,vesa alternate: fbdev,intel,nv dri: iris gpu: i915
d-rect: 3840x5420 display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: DP-2 pos: primary,top model: ASUS PA279 serial: <filter>
built: 2022 res: mode: 3840x2160 hz: 60 scale: 150% (1.5) to: 2560x1440
dpi: 163 gamma: 1.2 size: 597x336mm (23.5x13.23") diag: 685mm (27")
ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 3840x2160 min: 640x480
Monitor-2: DP-3 pos: bottom model: BOE Display 0x085f built: 2021 res:
mode: 3840x1100 hz: 60 scale: 150% (1.5) to: 2560x733 dpi: 284 gamma: 1.2
size: 344x99mm (13.54x3.9") diag: 358mm (14.1") modes: max: 3840x1100
min: 1920x550
Monitor-3: eDP-1 pos: middle model: Samsung 0x415f built: 2019 res:
mode: 3840x2160 hz: 60 scale: 200% (2) to: 1920x1080 dpi: 284 gamma: 1.2
size: 344x194mm (13.54x7.64") diag: 395mm (15.5") ratio: 16:9
modes: 3840x2160
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
drv: iris device: 2 drv: swrast device: 3 drv: nvidia gbm: drv: iris
surfaceless: drv: iris wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia v: 580.95.05 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU/PCIe/SSE2
memory: 7.81 GiB display-ID: :0.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.328 layers: 11 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
name: Intel UHD Graphics (TGL GT1) driver: mesa intel v: 25.2.4-arch1.2
device-ID: 8086:9a60 surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 580.95.05
device-ID: 10de:249c surfaces: N/A device: 2 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 20.1.8 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.2.4-arch1.2 (LLVM
20.1.8) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: gputop, intel_gpu_top, lsgpu,
nvidia-settings, nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info x11: xdriinfo, xdpyinfo,
xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake-H HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl alternate: snd_soc_avs,
snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl, snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 0000:00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:43c8 class-ID: 0401
Device-2: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 0000:01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228b
class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.17.3-zen2-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.9 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse
status: active 2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
4: pw-jack type: plugin tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Tiger Lake PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 0000:00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:43f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek USB 10/100/1G/2.5G LAN driver: r8152 type: USB rev: 3.2
speed: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 bus-ID: 4-1:2 chip-ID: 0bda:8156
class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
IF: enp0s20f0u1 state: up speed: 2500 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: br-cb75a45733ee state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-2: docker0 state: down mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX201 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-14:7 chip-ID: 8087:0026
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 2 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 5.2
lmp-v: 11 status: discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c010c
RAID:
Hardware-1: Intel Volume Management Device NVMe RAID Controller driver: vmd
v: 0.6 port: N/A bus-ID: 0000:00:0e.0 chip-ID: 8086:9a0b rev: class-ID: 0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.82 TiB used: 1000.37 GiB (53.7%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Samsung model: SSD 980 PRO 2TB
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s
lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 5B2QGXA7 temp: 37.9 C
scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 410.15 GiB size: 410.15 GiB (100.00%)
used: 280.77 GiB (68.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1
mapped: luks-316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 824 KiB (0.3%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 410.15 GiB size: 410.15 GiB (100.00%)
used: 280.77 GiB (68.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1
mapped: luks-316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 410.15 GiB size: 410.15 GiB (100.00%)
used: 280.77 GiB (68.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1
mapped: luks-316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 410.15 GiB size: 410.15 GiB (100.00%)
used: 280.77 GiB (68.5%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/dm-1 maj-min: 253:1
mapped: luks-316249cc-7193-456f-89c1-f3206c9aa185
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 34.14 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0
mapped: luks-eafba6ea-1842-45d3-8af3-5ce617c6f478
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 31.03 GiB used: 5.37 GiB (17.3%)
priority: 100 comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
Src: /sys System Temperatures: cpu: 70.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 3300
Power: 12v: N/A 5v: 5 3.3v: N/A vbat: N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 32 GiB note: est. available: 31.03 GiB used: 18.2 GiB (58.6%)
Processes: 495 Power: uptime: 2d 8h 17m states: freeze,mem,disk
suspend: s2idle avail: deep wakeups: 1 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown,
reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 12.35 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,
power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 258 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: 1918 pm: pacman pkgs: 1893 libs: 470 tools: octopi,paru,yay
pm: rpm pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 25 Compilers: clang: 20.1.8 gcc: 15.2.1
alt: 14 Shell: Bash v: 5.3.3 default: fish v: 4.1.2 running-in: konsole
inxi: 3.3.39
Garuda (2.11.1-1):
System install date: 2025-06-26
Garuda release: 250308
Last full system update: 2025-11-07
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-utils nvidia-open-dkms garuda-hardware-profile-standard garuda-hardware-profile-standard-x11
Windows dual boot: No/Undetected
Failed units:
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- "Garuda" is not the current bootloader: https://wiki.garudalinux.org/why-garuda-bootloader
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- Nvidia drivers are installed, but no hardware profile is active (fix available)
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